Gus’s Year in Books

Hi!

I’m Gus, and if you see me, I’ll usually have a book in-hand

I’m a reader, but I’m also a coder

And given my love of data visualization, I thought I’d give you a closer look into my annual library, using my skills in R

This year, I read 67 books

I read little novellas and big epics

My longest book was Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie, while my shortest book was Carmilla, by Sheridan Le Fanu

I read across 150 years

Sentimental Education,

1869

Other Terrors,

July 2022

And across 14 countries

Feel free to hover to see which authors I’ve read from each country!

I learned to not trust reviews

I plotted my rating of a book compared to its average rating. The blue bars show predicted ratings produced by an ordinal regression.

Books where I most diverged
Title	Author	My Rating	Average Rating
A Wolf at the Table	Augusten Burroughs	1	3.74
No One Is Talking About This	Patricia Lockwood	5	3.58

And here are some of my favorites:

The series:	The gays:	The girlies:
The Neapolitan Novels	The Song of Achilles	Circe
The Broken Earth Trilogy	Cleanness	Either/Or
	Detransition, Baby	No One is Talking About This
	Happy-Go-Lucky

Thanks for staying with me

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